This afternoon we removed the Vote page tab from all of our sites. Although we eliminated a step in the submission process, our Editorial Team will still be looking at submissions and promoting them based upon the number of favorites, shares and votes. The vote pages were showcasing only a small amount of submitted content. Previously, our Editorial Team would go through submissions and promote a certain amount to the Vote page and from there, high performing submissions from the Vote page were promoted to the Home page.

Removing the Vote pages allows our Editorial Team to look at all submissions as potential posts for the Home page regardless if they have been on the Vote page or not. Please continue to submit your funny content, and we will promote to the Home page depending on how it performs within our community.

If you have further questions, please email us at contactus@cheezburger.com.

I’m disappointed in this. Felt like we the viewers had some say as to what goes on in the submission process. Letting us decide. Also, it gave us even more new ones to view each day. I liked looking at several new pages of Rage Comics & FailBlogs each day. Please bring this back. I felt kind of… lost… like there was nothing more for me to do on the site tonight. Nothing new to look at on the pages I like and nothing new for me to vote on. I’m probably the only one who feels this way, but it really bummed me out. Also, while I’m at it… Bring back infinite scrolling. That was awesome! In addition, please make “Faith In Humanity Restored” a permanent site/feature.

I agree especially since there are so few new posts on the pages anymore. I used to spend more time on the Vote page than the Main page since there are only 3 or 4 new posts/day. I miss the old Cheezburger

How on earth are WE to see the submitted LOLs if there is no vote page? How can your Ed Team make any valid decisions if we are not allowed to see, much less vote, on the LOLs. All we are allowed to see now, are the ones YOUR team decide on. What am I missing here?
All these changes have sucked all the joy out ICHC. Instead of taking note of who advertises on your site in case I want something, I now take note so that I will NEVER buy anything from any ads on your site. I figure you care more about them than you do about your users.
And you have the nerve to end with “Cheers”. No “cheer” left on this site.

This is really disappointing. People have been complaining about the lack of ability to see all the submissions in the voting pages, so instead of letting US decide which submissions become featured you just removed it altogether? That’s not helpful.

Furthermore, your title of this post is idiotic. A change to the voting page would be how it operates or how many submissions show up on it, not a deletion of it.

Not happy with the change. Could say: Cheez, I’m disappoint. Don’t let favoritism or the the mods decide the fate of the submissions, but actually let the people vote on them. Why change something that isn’t broken? Probably these comments won’t change anything, but just know that we are not impressed.

What is the rationale behind this decision, this makes no sense. First the comments and now this. Why fix stuff that’s not broken? When are you going to get rid of ICHC profiles and force everyone to sign with FB?

So this is how liberty dies, to the sound of thunderous applause! Wait a minute, I don’t think anyone is actually applauding.

I’m pretty sure your claim that this will allow mods to put highly regarded content in features is entirely bogus. I’ve seen many posts go straight to home page with almost no votes and I’ve seen posts with 250 upvotes and 20 favorites languish on the voting page. I think what this does is it ensures that mods can post whatever they want from the submitted content without having to listen to people complain that their stuff was well received by the users but ignored by the admins.

Oh well. At least this eliminates the hypocrisy. I’ll keep posting dirty and off-color jokes in the hopes that one will make it through. 🙂

Ok, to be honest, I don’t know what I find to be more disappointing. The fact that you decided to remove easy access to the Vote page, where even though a number of the submissions don’t make it to the home page are still pretty good and I add those to my collections, or that access to the Vote page is still there if you know what URL to input in. That being said, if you really want/have to remove the Vote page, at least give us some way to view the submissions and add them to our favorites/collections.

I think this is a very bad change. As mentioned by others, it provides less content for people to view per day. Basically every weekend, I’ve run out of funnies, and so, large parts of Saturday and all of Sunday goes to voting page views. So I can’t see how this will do anything other than bring the amount of pageviews during weekends/holidays down considerably.

Also, isn’t a meme something that is define by society? I don’t think you can properly call it “Memebase” if deciding what is and isn’t a meme comes down to a small crew, while the greater masses are unable to affect it. And I really can’t see how this is supposed to be beneficial at all

This is a huge disappointment. Losing the voting pages takes away the majority of the LOLs that were shown. Now that there will only be four or five new LOLs a day, I don’t really have much reason to visit very often.

I’d say I’m gonna miss the daily cheezburger fix, but you made sure that isn’t going to be the truth.

I always wondered why none of my submissions ever made it even to the voting page. Now I know. I don’t do twitter, facebook, myspace, or any other social media. Not even youtube. This was my only social media site, and now – as has been said – there is not much to do here at all. I don’t even have any “friends” on this site because I don’t know anybody and my stuff never got seen. Oh well… back to those perverted adults only websites. At least their policies make sense. Thanks for the fun days while they lasted! I’m afraid the fun level just plummeted.

This was a horrible decision. I seem to remember you guys trying this before, and it didn’t work out. So why do it again?
Oh, and in case you guys didn’t know you can still access the vote page by putting /vote at the end of the page’s url.
ex. Memebase.com/vote
They even still update it, though not as frequently.

Please bring back the voting page! This change is going to make it very hard for new users or users who don’t have many friends to get their lols featured. How can their lols get favorited, voted on, or shared if they have no friends to see them? If nobody sees an lol or meme, it’s not going to faved, voted on, or shared anywhere. It’s also going to make it hard for them to make any friends so their stuff can get any exposure. Without any friends to send stuff across their dashboard the only users they’ll come across are the ones lucky enough to get their work featured and they’ll have no way knowing who else even exists. How are they even going to find anybody to be friends with that way?

I’ve made many friends from seeing their work on the voting page. Can’t do that anymore, since there is no VP. I’ve also faved many things on the vp that I wouldn’t have seen if they weren’t featured there. This change means I just won’t see a lot of stuff unless a friend happens to fav or share it. So I guess the only lols I,or anybody else, gets to see now are the ones made by friends and friends of friends. I’m going to miss out on a lot of good stuff because of this.

This all comes down to a lot less exposure for everyone’s work, both here on ICHC, Facebook and other sites. Can’t share a meme or lol on Facebook or anywhere else if I never see it. How does it benefit ICHC to limit exposure of the very content you WANT exposure for?

Terrible, terrible idea. With the voting page gone, I now have no reason to visit the site as often. This change will actually drive away traffic because there is less content. So, instead of visiting daily when I’m wasting time at work, I will wait several days to allow the content to build up. Bad move, people.

Each time ICHC implements a nonsensical change (and that seems to be often), I like the site less and less. This latest change is the lamest and has officially turned me away from ICHC forever. Goodbye! You used to be great!

Where the FRIG IS THE VOTING PAGE????? Some of us do not DO Facebook. What about us? You know, the people who have been with this site since day one????Do we not COUNT? If that is your idea of improvement, I can take my time else where. WAKE UP- listen to your countless and so to be leaving viewers and stop messing with a good thing. Your “improvements” are not better, they are not liked, they are only for your convience and there fore they suck.

It is further proof that ICHC is moving away from it’s former platform at a rate and absolutely pulverizing the ICHC we have known and loved. Cheesepeeps, if you haven’t prepared yourself to understand we no longer have a say or matter, please do so soon. It is going to the children and I wonder if some of these decisions are being made by them. This is another fad and it is a costly endeavor. Soon to be a disastrous one.

I was insanely disappointed when I found that the voting page vanished. I loved checking both the featured memes and the voted-up memes every time I visited my favorite sites. I didn’t know the reason for their vanishing until I thought to check this blog. Your post makes no sense. How do we still get to ratebon new content if there’s no way to view it? It seems very unfair to remove such an enjoyable feature to the sitebwhether it makes things “easier” for thenmods or not. Exceptionally disappointed, Cheezburger. Fail.

I’m also very disappointed with this latest decision. Now the only way anyone can see our LOLs is if they visit our pages or sites. Not exactly convenient.

Ever since ICHC became Facebook Junior, the site has gone downhill. Before that, ICHC was my favorite site, and I visited many times a day. Now I visit maybe once or twice a week, and post much less often. I don’t do Facebook either, so I could care less what stuff from ICHC gets posted/liked on Facebook.

I’m also disappointed that my old posts which earned a lot of votes–especially those that made the front page–now show no votes. I liked going back to see my posts that made the front page and felt a little proud that so many voted for those posts. That kind of stuff keeps users coming back, and it gives users some “cred” as well. Now it’s all up to YOUUUUU, and you’ve gotten all carried away with your big bad selves.

There are now other meme sites out there. I wonder if it’s because you’ve so epically FAILED at keeping ICHC fun.

The only reason i come to this site is it’s at-a-glance format otherwise i’d go to reddit. But at least on there you can submit anything and it sits there good or bad and goes up or down according to it’s merit. Why do your mods here have such overwhelming power over content? It sculpts each page to that person’s individual likes and dislikes. It turns each page into someone’s personal spam topic. You need more community involvement. Not less.

You must resist the temptations of Basement Cat and listen to Ceiling Cat!! Ceiling Cat wants the vote pages restored and is willing to forgive your transgressions. He understands the temptations of Basement Cat and wants to welcome back to the fold, but first you must repent your sins, restore the voting pages, and GIVE THE LOLRUS BACK HIS BUKKIT!!

Let’s just say EPIC FAIL by ICHC on removing the Voting pages. I liked being able to look through the pages and vote. Some of the ones that I loved were not as loved by others. Does that mean they shouldn’t be seen?

How about do what your users like instead of caving to social media pressure?

“Removing the Vote pages allows our Editorial Team to look at all submissions as potential posts for the Home page regardless if they have been on the Vote page or not.”

The implication here is that somehow the editors could not view all submissions and I have to call BS on that. If not chosen by the Editors, how did LOLz get promoted to the Vote page in the first place?

While on the subject of promotions…I have said this repeatedly over the years and I still stand by it: why are so many LOLz by unregistered users allowed on the Front Page? FP “awesome day come true” status needs to be the happiness of people who take the time to register, not those who don’t care enough about the site to get truly involved.

I have to be honest…I really miss the days when I felt like an appreciated contributor and member.

I find that I spend less time on the site with fewer Lols to browse I used to check the pages, and then I would click on “vote” to see more and vote. Now, I’m on the site maybe 60 seconds and done. Reducing content by removing the Vote pages makes no sense at all. I sincerely implore ICHC to reconsider this move. It seems very bad both for users and advertisers.

” our Editorial Team will still be looking at submissions and promoting them based upon the number of favorites, shares and votes. ”

We can’t vote if there’s no vote page.

most number of favorites just means the people making Lols who have the most friends get to be on the Homepage. > not fair and it doesn’t make sense, the funniest ones should come on the Homepage.

I appreciate what you’re trying to do (be more fair and include all) but if you cannot make a page for yourselves where all lols that are made appear on, I’m pretty sure that all of us in the community would rather just vote on new submissions than have our own lols on the vote page. (people can always use the: ‘See all captions link’ to see more funnies to vote on.

I had been coming to the site every day to see new lolcats everyday. If you are only going to have a couple of new ones everyday, then once every week or two (or even less often) will be often enough– especially since we have been cut out of the selection process entirely. Only allowing people see the very few submissions that YOU think are good enough not only reduces people’s reason to visit the site to view things, but also diminishes any incentive to submit, since there is very little chance that any submission will be seen. You folks need to think more carefully about any “improvements” you make to your site before you “improve” yourselves out of business.

So far, I liked the sense of humor of the site voters more than the sense of humor of the moderators–in the last week, there’s already less good stuff on the main page than there used to be. I wish you’d reconsider.

I, like many others, am disappointed by this change. It seems counterproductive in every conceivable way. The cheezburger network has created a vast devoted community that could, and was, utilized to crowd-source, at least in part, it’s submission promotions. Instead of removing this resource you should be embracing and expanding it. People spend hours a day on your site and are happy to go through and rate the good and the bad. This adds great value to the site; your editors can spend more time doing actual editing, users get more content, the community grows as everyone feels more apart of the experience, and your page views go way up.

How does removing this feature help the Cheesburger Network and its community?

At first, when I couldn’t find the voting page, I thought the website was glitching out. Now I know the truth. This is a really bad idea of what they’re doing. There are plenty of funny and ORIGINAL LOLs made by lesser-known users who have never been on homepage, who, thanks to the voting page, managed to actually get there. Now we’ll be forcefed the LOLs that the site administrators personally like, and they won’t even bat an eyelash at other LOLs the COMMUNITY likes. I don’t have a Facebook because I don’t find any reason for it. I have a Cheezburger account because I want to get a laugh out on a daily basis, and if I can only like what the owners like, I might as well look on Google images for decent images that others make.

“Removing the Vote pages allows our Editorial Team to look at all submissions as potential posts for the Home page regardless if they have been on the Vote page or not”

Oh, so you weren’t looking at all submission previously, huh? That explains A LOT.

Here’s an idea… why not 100% of everything goes on a voting page, even if its the most offensive trash on the planet, and then users can vote them up, report the bad ones , etc. Wouldn’t that make 1,000% more sense? Let users filter, then staff can highlight the high rated and favorites?

I also don’t believe if you weren’t reviewing all submissions previously, that you’re going to be reviewing them all now either.

Part of this backlash isn’t so much about doing away with the voting pages, but the lame cowardly double-speak used to explain it. Just be straight and honest. The only thing believable in the entire paragraph is the part where there’s definitely no more voting pages.

Well, cheezburger was fun while it lasted. I really liked going through all the stuff on the vote page. Without it, I see maybe 5 new posts a day which makes visiting this place pointless now. I know I am only one person so I doubt you all care. Still, minus one person means that much less ad revenue for you. Email me if you bring back to vote page. It was really the only reason I came here. About half of the stuff that makes the home page stinks which is why I liked the vote page as much as I did. So long.

Ugh, so true. I’m sad that I only discovered this site in the last 6 months of it’s lifespan. When the only memes that are visable are the ones that are approved by a specific group of people, they are no longer memes. Just what the specific group of people find funny or relevant. Guess what, both those things are subjective. In order for memes to be relevant they need to be able to be voted on and discussed by the entire internet. That’s what creates culture, that’s what becomes the zeitgeist, that’s what made Cheezburger a great place for fandoms. Now that’s all gone for no reason.

Trawling through the vote on submissions page was also what kept people like me and I’m sure many others coming back to the site over and over again. Now there’s no reason to come back more than once a day to check out the front pages which have become rather boring as a result. There used to be so much gold on the vote pages! I’ve saved hundreds of images from those things! So why can’t we have them? Why can’t we have a free space to add to the culture?

Surely there’s a middle ground here. Just re-add the vote pages and make getting to the frontpage a more detailed process, moderated by the editorial team. Nobody would have a problem with that. Either way, you better do something about this soon, or by the year’s end the site’s community will dissipate and as a result lose all relevance.

I was away for months due to an accident and only just returned. And …. returned to what? Viewing other submissions and voting on them was essential to the pleasure of ICHC. I always knew the mods had the power to put something on the front page even if it didn’t have many votes (a few of mine got to the front page within an afternoon) but the idea of an ICHC “community” depends on our being able to communicate and support each other, seeing each other’s work and choosing to support it. Now that that’s gone, I can’t see myself returning here. Chances = one in a thousand.

It’s all about control, peeplez!! There’s money in ads. Advertisers need to make sure that content stays predictable, that the staff has things under control. That means that the social aspects that made Memes possible are now answering to “The Man”. You’re starting to see some really sucky, odd content make it to the front page, with apparently more and more ads, and more submissions that look like they may be ads.
Oddly enough there is plenty of staff to devote to the creation of university-level analysis on each meme, its origin, usage, examples, etc., including excellent video productions. Marketing the memes and educating the public, unfortunately enabling other rules that take the fun out of social. But the fans and fickle and they find other sites that will cater to this need.